April 27th marked the annual Faculty Awards Dinner. During the dinner, a wide variety of awards are given to professors. Two CCI professors, Marcia Mardis and Kaitlin Lansford, were awarded at this dinner. The Developing Scholar Award was awarded to Marcia Mardis and recognizes mid-career associate professors who have been singled out by their peers. The award …
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Florida State Recognizes 2 CCI Professors
Mardis named Chair of AASL Editorial Board
Marcia Mardis, associate professor in the School of Communication, has been named the Chair of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) editorial board. While on the board, she will help build on a strong history of publications that seek to transform teaching and learning through school library programs. Highly respected in the field of …
CONTINUE READING20 Questions with Melissa Gross
20 Questions with Melissa Gross What was your first job? When I was sixteen I worked for Carte Blanche (a credit card company that no longer exists). If you were to write a personal memoir, what would you name it? My Life with Books. Where did you grow up? Los Angeles, CA What is …
CONTINUE READINGCCI Welcomes New iSchool Staff
Chauncey Richburg graduated from Florida State University with a B.S. Criminology in 2012. He was an active member of the United States Army from 2004-2007 and previously worked as an Academic Support Assistant in the FSU Statistics Department. Richburg serves as an Office Administrator in the School of Information and enjoys research about military science and political science. …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool’s Marcia Mardis awarded Developing Scholar Award
The School of Information‘s Marcia Mardis has been awarded the Developing Scholar Award by the Council on Research and Creativity (CRC) at Florida State University. Dr. Mardis is the second School of Information faculty member to ever have received this distinction. The Developing Scholar Award is based upon an evaluation of Mardis’ scholarly activities at Florida State University. …
CONTINUE READINGFSU’s Author Day honors CCI Faculty
Each year, the Office of Faculty Recognition holds an Authors Day to recognize faculty members who have published books in the past year. From the College of Communication and Information, Davis Houck, Andy Opel, Art Raney, Melissa Gross, Shuyuan Mary Ho, Christie Koontz, Don Latham, Marcia Mardis and Lorri Mon will be honored at the …
CONTINUE READINGFind the iSchool at iConference 2015
The School of Information is heading for California! iConference 2015 is held this year in Newport Beach, California from March 24-27. Hosted by University of California, Irvine, faculty and students from the School of Information will be representing Florida State at the conference. Since 2005, the conference has provided forums where professionals, researchers and teachers …
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